IndexNow is a simple way of notifying search engines of updates to URLs on a site.
IndexNow allows website owners to submit a request to search engines to prioritize the crawling of a particular page or blog post on your site.
This plugin provides a no-fuss, simple alternative to just submit updates to the search engines.
Crawl requests will be sent to search engines when:
- new content is published
- existing content is updated
- existing content is unpublished (this encourages de-indexing)
- the post slug changes (both the old and new are sent index the redirect URL)
De-indexed and redirect URLs are only sent to IndexNow once.
The biggest features of this plugin are the features that it’s missing:
- there are no settings, it just works
- there are no onboarding steps, it just works
- there are no custom database tables, it just works
- simply put, there is no fuss!
Simple Search Submission for IndexNow submits the update requests as you save your content. If you wish to submit the URLs asynchronously via a cron job, you can include the code add_filter( 'simple_search_submission_notify_async', '__return_true' ); in your theme or or plugin.